Totaling the unsustainable tax increases and windfall revenue during Pritzker Administration – Wirepoints
May 26, 2026
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With $162 billion more from taxpayers, couldn’t you deliver a few bond upgrades, too
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A largely unasked question is becoming glaring: Is Illinois doing all it should to use artificial intelligence to make government cost less and work better? So far, the evidence says no.
IL/Chicago politicians—will not even discuss key issues which must be fixed (ie public sector pensions/remuneration; fiscal condition (bond ratings!); political corruption; crime; schools; political mismanagement and malfeasance (ie actual key process governance); –and of course they are “owned” by the public unions. So not only won’t they talk about this stuff, or of course do anything about it, they instead slap non-public union taxpayers in the face with Amendment 1…(and of course the un-SafeT Act). Audacious and condescending to the max, and of course a 180 from their oaths of office, to be fiduciaries for all citizens of the state,… Read more »
just like rahm, smith can be honest with taxpayer/voters now that she’s retiring and not getting any more pay-to-play $ from public sec unions